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Old 21st Aug 2003, 15:45
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BrianG
 
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Paul,

I liked your article on flying a trike. Lane Wallace (?) from the US Flying mag wrote in the last issue I received about her experience in flying a trike. From memory Lane flew the same type you flew - the ones manufactured at Redhead, a suburb of Newcastle.


MJP,

The issue the JF would seem to be demonstrated in the following story. Sometime ago a friend of mine (now flying 747s for an international carrier) picked his father (then a senior check pilot with Qantas) up from Bankstown in a Warrior, intending to land at Mascot. Eager to impress his father he made sure the flight went smoothly. And it did - until very very late final @ Mascot his father became very tense. The height at which his father became tense was about the height he would normally have flared a 747 - much higher than the flare height of a Warrior. His father had not flown in light aircraft for years.
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